Asian School of Business to set up own campus Near Technopark

Asian School of Business (ASB) is investing Rs 63 crore to set up its own campus near Technopark.16 acres of land at Pallipuram, near Kazhakoottam where Technopark is located, has been identified for the new campus and the plan is ready.

An investment of Rs 63 crore is envisaged and the B-school will move out of its leased premises at Technopark as soon as the first phase becomes operational.Spread over three phases, the first phase of the campus will be completed by the middle of next year. It is expected to incur a cost of around Rs 30 crore

Work on second and third phases is scheduled to begin by the last quarter of 2009 and early 2011 respectively. While the second phase is estimated to cost Rs 12 crore, the third phase would involve Rs 21 crore.

On completion of the first stage, the ASB campus will have 1,20,000 sft of space and comprise a conference hall, library, hostel to accommodate 150 students, guest house, cafeteria and recreation facilities. It will accommodate 200 students.

When the second stage gets over in about three years, ASB will have additional classrooms and more accommodation for students and staff. Once the phase two of the campus is built, the plan is to have entrepreneur and management development centres to offer residential training programmes for senior executives.

The institute will also house a business incubator in the next few years.ASB, which offers a two-year post graduate management programme, will be Kerala's first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified green building and campus.

Contact ASB campus in Technopark:
Asian School of Business, Padmanabham
Phone: 0471-25579001

Full moon party at Technopark

Update : The Full Moon party conducted by Team Aruns in association with TechnoparkLive! was a wonderful and memorable event. see snaps here

New open parking space near Nila, Technopark

Technopark has constructed a new open parking space near Nila for parking employee-vehicles and company owned buses. Employees may from now park their vehicles in the open car parking area at Nila. Hope that people will not park their vehicles on both sides of road leading to Nila anymore, as it causes traffic congestion

Rules and Manners in Car Parking - Who Cares?

Here it is how two cars were parked near the Technopark amphitheater made hindrance and inconvenience to many, today evening.

Many people, including female employees waited there for a long time in the heavy rainy evening. so we are publishing the photos, to identify those vehicles which made a great inconvenience to many technopark employees who parked their car in a very decent manner.






So to avoid such situations,

Please park more sensibly and be considerate enough to park the cars without making any trouble to others.

Or at least keep your visiting cards in the dashboard so that others can call you if your car is a problem to others.

Karoke Music Jam for Techoparkians

Team Aruns in association with TechnoparkLive is conducting a grant Karoke Music Jam at Cafe Coffe Day, Ginger Technopark. ( on 17th July 2008, 6.30 PM onwards )

This is a unique chance to sing your heart out..The event includes Karoke Music Jam, Coffee quizzes, Coffee tasting sessions, Fun Games etc...

various prizes awaiting you!! The thrilling events in Technopark begins here...

Poll result

Here is the poll result. 51% of the people voted for YES. and they think that the techno city project is a hype. and 36% of them are saying its not a hype.

anyway after the commencement of the technocity project, the prices of the nearby places got rocketed high. and its is reported that it reached up to 17 Lakh/cent!

The real estate mafia and the land brokers are taking the advantage of the techno city project. and so the same reason so many people believes that the technocity is a hype made up of the real estate mafia in trivandrum.

But according to the reliable sources the project is already started and will be completed according to the current plan. govt should take necessery steps to make sure that, this project not making any parallel mafia's in trivandrum.

[HELP] Lost the Tag

On July 14 Afternoon went I went out for lunch, I lost my tag on the way. I am working in
Exalt Integral Solutions Pvt Ltd,L4 ,Thejaswini Block
If anyone get, it please submit that to my office or reply to mohammed.khaleel@eisplc.com

PMI Kerala chapter conducted seminar in Technopark

PMI Kerala Chapter and Techno Park, Trivandrum conducted an interesting session on "Innovation, Patents & IPR" by Mr. Ajith Kumar P N, PMP, Yesterday

This session covered the following areas:

- Innovation, Patents & IPR and difference between Innovation and Invention
- Why Innovation is important for corporate organizations Success story of innovative companies (innovative products/solutions and revenue through royalties/IPR licensing Ex; Google, 3M, IBM, Samsung etc.)
- Why patenting is important and how corporates generate revenue out of licensing their patented solutions
- What are patentable inventions and non-patentable inventions
- Process involved in patenting in India and other countries
- Setting up Organization strategies for innovation

Technopark formed a Virtual Technology Business Incubator at the LBS Kasaragod

Giving shape to its first regional incubation centre, the Thiruvananthapuram Technopark has formed an Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) and a Virtual Technology Business Incubator at the LBS College of Engineering in Kasaragod.

The IT park's Technopark Business Incubation (TBI) centre would be offering support to the engineering college for coordinating the effective conduct of the Entrepreneurship Development Activities thus maintaining the status of a Regional TBI in the state, a Technopark official said.

K C Chandrasekharan Nair, CFO, Technopark and Programme Coordinator-New Initiatives, Technopark TBI inaugurated the EDC. According to Nair the objective of forming the EDC is to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the campus.

Another objective is to exploit and effectively convert the skills and expertise within the institute to create entrepreneurial ventures.

Technopark already incubated more than 70 start up technology companies in its incubation facilities in the past five years with a success rate of over 90 per cent, Nair said the National Award for the Best Technology Business Incubator for 2007 and a Seed Funding Assistance of Rs 200 lakh instituted by National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB) of the Department of Science and Technology, have come the Technopark way due to this.

Meanwhile, the entrepreneurship development activities of the LBS College of Engineering would offer support to spot and incubate innovative ideas among the students into marketable products and to incubate them in the TBI.

The Technopark TBI will be providing all essential support needed for the entrepreneurship development activities

Chilli baji from Technopark Restaurant

Sherston is closing down its Technopark operations?

Sherston India was started in June 2000 with a small team of seven at Chennai. Proven with excellence and creativity, Sherston India has grown to a current work force of more than 100 with a second office in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram, equipped with latest diversified technologies and a harmonious team. With a strong team of multimedia, design and programming experts, Sherston, India, is geared to provide cutting edge solutions in the educational software and Computer Based Training.

Its being reported that the Shertson is about to close down its technopark operations and continue its chennai centre.so its technopark employees are seeking for opportunities within technopark and companies outside.

As a company Sherston Technopark proved many times their unity and creativity, the best examples are their presence in Tech a break celebrations. they proved the celebrations can be made much colorful and creative. We hope they will comeback in to their glory soon, and thus in to technopark again.

Petrol theft in Technopark?

Please find the mail circulated by a technopark employee. Please be alert.

Dear All,

On friday evening when I took out my car from Technopark I noticed that fuel level was nil. Surprisingly that morning I had put in Rs 500 worth of Petrol.

First I thought that fuel meter had some problem but the car stopped immediately as I crossed the back gate .

I rang up popular service and they send across a person .He showed me that the tube connecting to the fuel tank was disconnected.

Further I learned from him that the person whoever did was a real expert as this tube is clipped to the filter and when we looked at it the clip was removed and was slipped up the tube.

earlier also we reported many fuel theft incidents near the Nila building, especially from the bikes of employees working in night shifts. technopark deployed many securities in parking areas and all, but still the theft continues, and more such incidents are being reported daily.

A new deal for IBS , Technopark

IBS software services, an IT firm specializing in new generation IT solutions to the global travel, transportation and logistics industry, has inked an agreement with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to provide it with a crew management solution.

Under the agreement, the airline will replace its existing crew management solution with Avient Crew, a product developed by IBS.

The IT-based solution optimizes crew utilization and maximizes crew productivity throughout the airline’s operating environment, providing real time alerts and crew data management as well as real-time solutions and decision-support functions for problem solving.

IBS claims that Avient Crew would help KLM manage all aspects of their crew operations, improve crew tracking and reduce disruption costs. It would allow for consistent monitoring and identification of problems and ensure that crew rosters comply with governmental and regulatory requirements, airport restrictions, crew training, licensing and airline-specific requirements.

karaoke Music Jam in Technopark

In Association with TechnoparkLive!

PRESENTS

Highlight of the evening:

• Karaoke singing contest.
  
• karaoke Music Jam
  
• Coffee Quizzies - get your CCD knowledge right and win goodies from CCD.
  
• Coffee tasting session.
  
• The best dressed male & female in RED (CCD's color) will win surprise gifts.
  
• Be ready for several surprise contests and gifts!

Limited seats - for Complimentary entry pass email us on technopark@arunsholidays.com NOW!

Register to participate in karaoke singing contest: Click here

...So you are invited !

Nine IT majors in the race for developing Technocity

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Larsen & Toubro, Raheja and Suzlon are among the nine major groups who have come forward for developing the Technocity, the-state-of-the-art IT township set up by the State Government on 500 acres in the state capital.

Emaar MGF, Maytas, Sun Forrester, SREI, Brigade and Ramki are the other major groups that have responded to the request-for-qualification’ (RfQ) invited by the Kerala State IT Infrastructure Limited (KSITI) for developing IT and IT-Enabled Service projects at the Technocity as well as the third-phase of the Technopark. The RfQ was released on May 28. The last date for submitting applications was June 30.

A committee headed by Chief Secretary P.J.Thomas will scrutinise the applications. The committee will have Secretaries of IT, Industry, Finance and Law Departments and Chief Executive Officers of the Technopark and the Infopark as its members. Those who do not satisfy the conditions prescribed in the tender notice would be rejected. The Cabinet should approve the final list of developers for the Technocity.

IT Secretary Ajay Kumar said that the land acquisition process for the Technocity at Pallipuram, around five km away from the Technopark, was progressing and the construction works were expected to begin within six months. The Technocity would have all the facilities of a town, including a school and a hospital, on its premises.

While 70 percent of the space would be utilised for IT-related activities, the remaining area would be utilised for other supporting infrastructure. The projects would be developed on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP)-basis with the KSITI holding 26 percent equity.

The developers will have to form a `special purpose vehicle’ (SPV) for executing the project. The SPV will be responsible for designing, engineering, financing, procurement, construction, marketing, operation and maintenance of the project. The project will be carried out in three different ranges - IT/ITES project for parcel size up to 50 acres; IT/ITES Project for parcel size greater than 50 and up to 100 acres; IT/ITES Project for parcel size greater than 100 acres.